Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic - Softcover

Stille, Alexander

 
9780099594918: Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099594919 ISBN 13: 9780099594918
Verlag: Vintage, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business) tells of the remarkable investigation spearheaded by Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, the two Sicilian prosecutors who in the 1980s took the war against the Mafia further than anyone had ever dared.

In 1992, aware that the two magistrates were without the complete support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. In death they were hailed as national heroes; the massive public outcry demanded their investigations be completed. The outcome: the toppling of crucial alliances that had forged political rule in Italy since WWII and the criminal indictment of Italy's most prominent leaders.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexander Stille's first book, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism, was chosen by the Time Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 1992, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. Since Excellent Cadavers he has written The Future of the Past and The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi. He has written for the Boston Globe, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Toronto Globe & Mail and the New Yorker. He is also the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia. Stille lives in New York.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099594919
ISBN 13 
9780099594918
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
480
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